'This textbook is meant to support active student engagement with music in the theory classroom. That means that this text is...
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'This textbook is meant to support active student engagement with music in the theory classroom. That means that this text is meant to take a back seat to student music making (and breaking). It is not the center of the course.The three original authors use this textbook in the context of “inverted” or “flipped” courses, often following an inquiry-based model.As a result, most of the pages in this textbook do not read like a typical twentieth-century textbook. They are somewhere in between prosy lecture notes and reference material, with minimal graphical or audio examples. Also, unlike many resources for “flipped” classes, there are few resources in this textbook where the core information is presented in video. We made these decisions consciously, so that this would not simply be a multimedia, web-based version of an industrial-era textbook. Rather, we wanted to create a textbook that could serve as a quick reference in the context of active musical engagement.In our classes, student activity takes pride of place, and it often precedes engagement with the textbook. The information contained in this text is secondary to that activity, and thus this text is meant to play only a supporting role in our classes.'

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This course introduces the basic concepts and terms needed to discuss melody and harmony. It is intended for teens or adults...
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This course introduces the basic concepts and terms needed to discuss melody and harmony. It is intended for teens or adults with no background in music theory but some familiarity with reading common notation and playing an instrument (or singing). Concepts covered include interval, major and minor keys and scales, triads and chords.

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This is a free textbook from OpenStax.'Rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre, and texture are the essential aspects of a musical...
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This is a free textbook from OpenStax.'Rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre, and texture are the essential aspects of a musical performance. They are often called the basic elements of music. The main purpose of music theory is to describe various pieces of music in terms of their similarities and differences in these elements, and music is usually grouped into genres based on similarities in all or most elements. It's useful, therefore, to be familiar with the terms commonly used to describe each element. Because harmony is the most highly developed aspect of Western music, music theory tends to focus almost exclusively on melody and harmony. Music does not have to have harmony, however, and some music doesn't even have melody. So perhaps the other three elements can be considered the most basic components of music.Music cannot happen without time. The placement of the sounds in time is the rhythm of a piece of music. Because music must be heard over a period of time, rhythm is one of the most basic elements of music. In some pieces of music, the rhythm is simply a "placement in time" that cannot be assigned a beat or meter, but most rhythm terms concern more familiar types of music with a steady beat. See Meter for more on how such music is organized, and Duration and Time Signature for more on how to read and write rhythms. See Simple Rhythm Activities for easy ways to encourage children to explore rhythm.'

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Draw back the curtain on the world of theatre and learn how the magic of a great stage performance is created. Designed for...
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Draw back the curtain on the world of theatre and learn how the magic of a great stage performance is created. Designed for theatre appreciation students and written in an engaging style, this book is an ideal introduction to all aspects of theatre. Learn about the variety of ways professional actors approach their roles. Meet the people you won’t see during a performance but who are essential in bringing a production to life: writers, directors, set designers, tailors, carpenters, electricians, stagehands, light and sound technicians, riggers, ushers, supervisors, and stage managers. From casting to run-throughs to wardrobe, this book includes interviews with those involved in the creation process from beginning to end. Eye-opening details about acting techniques, directing, and production design may inspire you to audition or work behind the scenes yourself.Special topics, including Shakespeare, the American musical, and world theatre, provide examinations into unique genres, and an overview of the fascinating history of theatre provides the necessary background to understand and enjoy live performances. The expert contributors to Theatrical Worlds reveal unexpected connections between the stage and such diverse fields as languages and literature, psychology, music, science, law, journalism, and business. After reading this book you’ll gain a deeper awareness of the many layers of artistry behind the wonders of theatre.

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The LATin Project is Latin America's Open Textbook Initiative is to publish and make available open textbooks in Spanish and Portuguese for Latin American schools and universities. The LATin Project, modeled after the Connexions(TM) Project, is an online collaborative writing project where teachers, professors, consultants, and experts, as a group community, share their teaching experiences, knowledge, and expertise in writing and publishing high-quality open textbooks that will be affordable and available to both students and educators.Their first open textbooks were released and made available in January 2014 and their goal is to eventually provide students with open textbooks in all areas/fields of study. The open textbook Creative Common License will be listed under the Latin American country that contributed/published the material content for the open textbook.

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The Orange Grove Digital Repository and University Press of Florida have formed a partnership to offer students affordable, accessible, and adaptable open textbooks that you can download using a PDF Reader to mobile devices and computers. Here you find open textbooks printed/published by the University Press of Florida.Note: Test bank questions for texts by University Press of Florida are being developed by WebAssign. Openstax College has test bank questions by LearningPod and Wiley. The open textbooks here are listed under either Creative Commons 2.5 or 3.0 and this information is usually stated at the top the first page.

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This is a free textbook offered by BookBoon.'The success of Group Theory is impressive and extraordinary. It is, perhaps, the...
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This is a free textbook offered by BookBoon.'The success of Group Theory is impressive and extraordinary. It is, perhaps, the most powerful and influential branch of all Mathematics. Its influence is strongly felt in almost all scientific and artistic disciplines (in Music, in particular) and in Mathematics itself. Group Theory extracts the essential characteristics of diverse situations in which some type of symmetry or transformation appears. Given a non-empty set, a binary operation is defined on it such that certain axioms hold, that is, it possesses a structure (the group structure). The concept of structure, and the concepts related to structure such as isomorphism, play a decisive role in modern Mathematics.The general theory of structures is a powerful tool. Whenever someone proves that his objects of study satisfy the axioms of a certain structure, he immediately obtains all the valid results of the theory for his objects. There is no need to prove each one of the results in particular. Indeed, it can be said that the structures allow the classification of the different branches of Mathematics (or even the different objects in Music (! )).The present text is based on the book in Spanish “Teoría de Grupos: un primer curso” by Emilio Lluis-Puebla, published by the Sociedad Matemática Mexicana This new text contains the material that corresponds to a course on the subject that is offered in the Mathematics Department of the Facultad de Ciencias of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México plus optional introductory material for a basic course on Mathematical Music Theory.This text follows the approach of other texts by Emilio Lluis-Puebla on Linear Algebra and Homological Algebra. A modern presentation is chosen, where the language of commutative diagrams and universal properties, so necessary in Modern Mathematics, in Physics and Computer Science, among other disciplines, is introduced.This work consists of four chapters. Each section contains a series of problems that can be solved with creativity by using the content that is presented there; these problems form a fundamental part of the text. They also are designed with the objective of reinforcing students’ mathematical writing. Throughout the first three chapters, representative examples (that are not numbered) of applications of Group Theory to Mathematical Music Theory are included for students who already have some knowledge of Music Theory.In chapter 4, elaborated by Mariana Montiel, the application of Group Theory to Music Theory is presented in detail. Some basic aspects of Mathematical Music Theory are explained and, in the process, some essential elements of both areas are given to readers with different backgrounds. For this reason, the examples follow from some of the outstanding theoretical aspects of the previous chapters; the musical terms are introduced as they are needed so that a reader without musical background can understand the essence of how Group Theory is used to explain certain pre-established musical relations. On the other hand, for the reader with knowledge of Music Theory only, this chapter provides concrete elements, as well as motivation, to begin to understand Group Theory.'

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This is a free textbook offered by BookBoon.'Electronics and Computing in Textiles connects the fields of electronics and computing with the field of textiles presenting the principles of the disciplines of electronics and computing with examples and applications in textiles. This structure is very important, especially because of the expansion of textiles in the modern multifunctional materials and products world. Furthermore, the progress in the textile processes with the use of automation systems is based mainly on electronic and computing concepts. Thus, Electronics and Computing in Textiles is essential in the modern textile engineering curriculum.'

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This is a free textbook that is offered by Amazon for reading on a Kindle. Anybody can read Kindle books—even without a Kindle device—with the free Kindle app for smartphones and tablets. Download the app for your device and start reading for free.'The 2012 Sustainable Design Sampler includes select material from six Wiley Sustainable Design titles. The material that is included for each selection is the book’s full Table of Contents as well as the first chapter.'

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This is a free textbook that is offered by Amazon for reading on a Kindle. Anybody can read Kindle books—even without a Kindle device—with the free Kindle app for smartphones and tablets. Download the app for your device and start reading for free.'Do you want to know how to make audition committees remember you? Are you looking for advice on selecting audition outfits? Have you ever wondered what songs NOT to sing at an audition? If you answered yes to any of these questions then this book is for you... 50 Things to Know About Musical Theatre Auditions by Amy Dresser offers a fresh approach to auditioning for the musical theatre. Most books on musical theatre auditions give you clichéd advice and time worn tips and tricks. Although there's nothing wrong with that, this little book will give you 50 exciting tips that you may not have heard before. In these pages you'll discover unique ideas for presenting an incredible audition and standing out among a crowd. This book will help you feel more confident and prepared for any audition, and hopefully help you to land that dream role! By the time you finish this book, you will know how to audition like the pros!'

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